The drug industry may be settling in for a hot, lazy summer, but FDA's Office of Prescription Drug Promotion has been keeping busy, issuing untitled letters to Pfizer, Valeant and Acorda Therapeutics over allegedly violative promotions in recent weeks.

Pfizer's Lipitor website touted the efficacy of Caduet, Chantix and Norvasc but failed to balance those claims with risk info for the drugs, according to an "untitled letter" from FDA's Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communication (DDMAC).

A convention graphic for Alcon's Travatan Z, an ophthalmic drop, broadened the product's indication and made unsubstantiated superiority claims, according to a Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communications (DDMAC) Untitled Letter.

The FDA scolded GlaxoSmithKline over a disease-awareness ad that failed to mention side effects but alluded to newly approved cancer treatment Arzerra. It's a sign the agency is construing the exemption for disease-awareness promotions quite narrowly.